Vegetable-strainer.



I No. 7oo,|9a. I Patented May 20, I902.

. G. M. GUNDEL. VEGETABLE STBAINER.

(Lpplicltion filed Feb. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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I ms coy, vnoro-umo WASHINGTON u c UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFIC GEORGE MARTIN GUNDEL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

VEG ETABLE-STRA INER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,193, dated May 20, 1902.

Application filed February 23, 1901. Serial No. 48,436. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it mayconccrn:

useful Vegetable-Strainer, of which the fol-- lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in vegetable strainers or mashers; and the object is to provide a utensil of this character by. means of which the vegetables may be quickly strained and delivered in that condition to a receptacle placed therefor andat the same time removing therefrom skin or seeds and to construct the device in a simple manner, so that it may be manufactured and sold at a small price.

With the above object in view the invention consistsin the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a strainer constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse sectional view, and Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal sectional View.

Referring now more particularly to the ac companying drawings, A designates a recep-' tacle which is preferably formed of metal and having itsside and end walls at their upper ends formed fiaringto provide a large inlet thereto. The receptacle A is provided with a pair of supporting-legs'B at each end of its bottom edge, one leg of each pair having its lower end bent to form a hook O to engage in a loop D, secured to the table or other support. The other leg of each pair has its lower end bent at an angle to form a foot E. Mounted in the receptacle near its bottom is a transversely-extending shaft G, which at one end projects through the side wall of said recep tacle and has attached thereto an operatinghandle G. Secured upon the shaft Within the receptacle is a plate H, which extends laterally of the shaft and is adaptedto-be moved downwardly toward-the lower end of the receptacle and upon each sideof the shaft by the rocking of said shaft. The bottom of the receptacle is open, and secured beneath said bottom and inclined downwardly and forwardly is a discharge-chute I, which conducts the vegetables after they have been strained to apan or receptacle placed to receive the *same.

Formed about the edge of the opening at the bottom of the receptacle is a bead or flange J, upon which removable screens K, of wiregauze, are supported, each screen being of such size as to be readily removable from the receptacle for cleaning. The screens are suitably supported intermediately of their ends by cross-pieces L, extending transversely of the receptacle at the bottom thereof.

In operation the cooked vegetables are placed in the receptacleand theshaft rocked to give to the plate a reciprocatory movement, which forces the vegetables through the screens and into the discharge-chute. The seeds and skin cannot pass though the fine meshes of the screens, and hence the vegetable is delivered in a strained condition free therefrom.

It will be noticed that when the plate is moved downward the same does not fill the entire space between the shaft and. the end wall of the receptacle, and this causes a mixing action of thevegetable being mashed 0r strained, so that the screensor sieves are pre= flat plate secured to the shaft, the screen servin g by engaging with the plate to prevent the complete rotation thereof, substantially as shown and described. I

2. In a device of the character specified, a receptacle having open top and bottom and formed with a bead about its bottom, a removable screen-bottom on said bead, a shaft I actuating said shaft, substantially as shown m0unted transversely of the receptacle and substantially midway between its ends above the screen-bottom and adjacent thereto, a flat plate secured to said shaft, the screen serving to prevent the complete rotation of the plate by engaging the same, and means for and described.

GEORGE MARTIN GUNDEL.

Witnesses:

FRANK MITCHELL, JAMES H. KULER. 

